Posted by
Purplegimp on Monday, May 04, 2009 1:45:20 AM
The gimp wonders if she will ever get caught up here. For my three loyal readers, who don't know, I was very ill from the beginning of August until about two weeks ago. All I'll say about it here, is, beware, very wary, of coumadin. For the highlight of the illness, please go Gimp House. The messy details are there.
I am upset about something that was on the news last night, so I'll start there, which is kind of at the end, and as my strength returns, I'll go back to where I left off before I got sick.
An announcement was made yesterday that Israel is willing to turn the Alawi village of Ager over to Lebanon. That's an interesting little village. Before the Six Day War it was part of Syria. During that war, the villagers asked to become part of Israel, and their request was granted. Then, after that jerk Ehid Barak turned tail and scarpered from Southern Lebanon in 2000, and allowed the UN to decide the international border between Lebanon and Israel, the northern half of the village was assigned to Lebanon, even though IT HAD NEVER BEEN PART OF LEBANON. For some strange reason the Syrians never said a word about it. Worse yet, no one asked the villagers themselves which country they want to be part of. Now, it seems that it is going to handed over to Lebanon with absolutely no regard of what they want. There is something very wrong with that. It's not like we need that village. Not a few of the villagers are drug runners, and engaged in other criminal activities. Personally, I'm rather fond of them. The contractor who renovated my housing authority apartment was from there, and I held four of them hostage in Gimp House until they fixed a mistake they'd made. I just locked the door, sat in front of it and refused to open it until they got it right. No amount of begging, pleading, explanations that it was the eve of one of their holidays helped. They remained my hostages until they got it right! And now they want to turn those poor people into Lebanese, when they would prefer to remain Israelis, without even asking them. They kind of made their decision in 1967, but who cares what they want? For all anyone knows, they might prefer to be held hostage in Gimp House.
Ok, that's it for today. I'll try to be better about posting in the future as I get stronger.